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More little tips and tricks

To keep the terminal available even after launching an application, append the command with &. Ex: nautilus &

To launch an application from a terminal and keep the application running even upon closing the terminal, add nohup before the command. Can be used with the previous tip. Ex: nohup nautilus &

which returns the pathnames of the files which would be executed in the current environment (from man which). Meaning if you have installed a package and you do not know how to start it, which will return the full path and name of the executable file